Saturday, December 22, 2007

Planting the Cross

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Antarctica, huh? SO COOL! Like to find out more about it. Any links to go to?
Matthew the Curmudgeon

Lee Hamilton said...

Wikipedia has a brief article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church,_Antarctica

The idea of also founding a monastery in Antarctica brings a new and intriguing meaning to the “going into the desert” metaphor.

Here’s an aerial satellite image, courtesy of Google Earth: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&ll=-62.19638500,-58.95982500&q=Antarctica&spn=0.001957,0.010815